Amba Maria van Erkelens

Assistant Professor, School of Business and Economics, Management and Organisation

Personal information

Amba van Erkelens is assistant professor at the departement of Management and Organization of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2025. She completed the Bachelor 'Interdisciplinary Social Sciences' at the University of Amsterdam and holds a Research Master 'Business in Society' from both the VU and the UvA.

Research

Amba conducts research in the fields of Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Circular Entrepreneurship. She is inspired by the Entrepreneurship as Practice lens and therefore mostly conducts ethnographic fieldwork. Her current research focuses on how social entrepreneurs enact resilience in times of crisis and how circular entrepreneurs embed themselves in a value network to create circular business models.

Teaching

Organization Theory; Academic Skills; Academic Paper; Bachelor Thesis

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